Again, not part of my question.
Do you or do you not want historically correct loadouts for vehicles in the game?
Simple question, yes or no.
manufacturers make them to the specifications made by the militaries.
Additionally, for historical correctness its absolutely 100% relevant to bring up those decisions.
There are official pilot reports of the f111 reaching 3.2 Mach. It’s only my word for it but when I was a cadet in the late 90s the pigs were often talked about as going Mach 3.2 up the QLD coast to use fuel.
A patently it could exceed Mach 2.4 but heat was the issue and they had an automated timer that triggered after exceeding set surface temp.
The M1A1 AIM is just an American Abrams operated by Australia. It has no real connection to the British tree.
The F-111C is a domestic version specific to Australia and given there was a demand for the British to receive an Aardvark (with the K sadly not being possible) due to their direct involvement in the program, the C was a logical fit to satisfy that whilst taking nothing away from the US tree as they receive the F variant at the same time.
Looking forward to the hordes of Soviet tanks that the British TT is gonna receive through India, because no other Commonwealth nation is allowed to supply those announced tanks.
I mean smin has a point, it’s literally just a US Abrams with export armor (which is stated to be similar to the DU armor on US AIM) and Australian camo